The event to launch the second phase of the hotline project in Hanoi on December 14 (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Labour, Invalids,and Social Affairs (MoLISA) joined the Japan International Cooperation Agency(JICA) to launch the second phase (2019-2021) of a JICA-funded hotline projecton curbing human trafficking in Vietnam on December 14.
Since 2012, with financial and technical support from JICA,the MoLISA developed hotline 1800 1567, which previously supplied childprotection consultation services.
To date, the hotline has been changed to 111, and tworegional operation centres have been established in the central city of Da Nangand the Mekong Delta province of An Giang. Information and service exchangeshave been maintained between the north and northern central region, the southcentral and Central Highlands region, and the southeast and Mekong Delta region.
The second phase of the project aims at setting up anational hotline and pushing for trans-border cooperation with neighbouringcountries in combating human trafficking.
Between October 2013 and June 2018, the hotline receivedclose to 13,000 calls, of which over 9,000 gave information and 3,500 soughtconsultation.
According to Dinh Van Trinh, deputy head of the anti-human traffickingoffice under the Ministry of Public Security, Vietnam has seen an average of400 human trafficking cases each year, involving around 1,000 victims and 600traffickers. Ninety percent of the victims are women and girls, aged between 15and 30. –VNA
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